Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...circulate condemning the conflicts in Colombia and Mexico and call for peace. If the U.S. is willing to aid any country militarily, it must also be prepared to become involved in the wars recipient countries are fighting. With recent comparisons to the U.S. involvement in El Salvador in the 1980s and even to Vietnam, recognition of the role we play in these conflicts is not forthcoming...
Plans and committees aren't the solution to this problem. Hiring minority coaches is a start. Moreover, I say we copy something the San Francisco 49ers did in the 1980s under Bill Walsh...
...think Danny shouldn't have done," he said, "I will own up to it." By the end of the week, Burton had owned up to the Indianapolis Star what Indiana political circles had been buzzing about for years: that he had fathered an illegitimate son in the early 1980s. He told the paper he wanted to go public to deflect attention from the boy and his mother...
...fire the missile now? The launch undoubtedly impressed potential weapon buyers. Missile sales are Pyongyang's biggest source of foreign exchange, peaking at about $700 million a year in the late 1980s, according to South Korean analysts. But revenue has declined to about $50 million as Pyongyang's clients have found other suppliers. With its economy imploding, the country desperately needs hard currency. "What they are doing is demonstrating a new product," says a senior Administration official...
...sustain classes that provide something special for their children. In an era in which gaining admission to top-shelf high schools and colleges has become a blood sport, self-interest trumps community building most of the time. In Montclair, N.J., lawsuits brought by African-American parents in the late 1980s forced Montclair High School to detrack one course--ninth-grade literature--so that students of all abilities and test scores would sit next to each other and read the same books. School officials say students who previously went unnoticed are flourishing. "Kids have started to find they have a voice...